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Attackers invite targets to collaborate on a project, convincing them to download and run a repository with malicious npm dependencies. (github.blog)
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[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You're right, I'm a dumb dumb and misread the whole thing as RPM, whoops!

[–] einsteinx2@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

No worries! I thought maybe RHEL had like their own NPM repo or something (I think NixOS has python packages, so that kind of thing isn’t unheard of), but then that didn’t really make sense so I wanted to make sure I was understanding.